[pdftex] pdftex compliance..

[K. R. Subramanian]

This is with regard to doing NSF proposals using pdflatex. Is the following
from NSF Fastlane Help Desk
true? I would have thought that using conversion tools to go from dvi-ps-pdf
would be a little
less reliable than doing pdflatex..

pdftex Gurus, please respond..

    -- krs

"Walker, Gary" wrote:

> Dr. Subramanian,
>
> We are quite well aware of pdflatex.  It is still very much in development,
> however, and in order to insure that the pdfs uploaded to FastLane are fully
> compliant with the Adobe PDF specification, we cannot, at this time,
> recommend its use.  In most instances, pdflatex is useable with FastLane but
> if you are using it you should be very careful to test the printing of your
> entire proposal as it can cause concatenation errors when we attempt to put
> the entire proposal together.  Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gary E. Walker
> FastLane Help Desk
> (800) 673-6188
> fastlane at nsf.gov
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: K. R. Subramanian [SMTP:krs at cs.uncc.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 3:14 PM
> > To:   fastlane at nsf.gov
> > Subject:      update -- using Tex/Latex to produce pdf..
> >
> >
> > These days you can use pdflatex to produce pdf directly from tex/latex
> > documents - this is
> > the easiest and most reliable ways to produce good pdf.
> >
> > I think website needs to be updated to include this. tex-dvi-ps-pdf is
> > perhaps more errorprone. Plus,
> > pdflatex also will now support including image files just as Jpeg..
> >
> >     -- krs
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. K.R.Subramanian                           Phone: (301) 402-0042
> > National Institutes of Health                 FAX:   (301) 402-4080
> > National Library of Medicine                  Email: krs at cs.uncc.edu
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> >
> >

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Dr. K.R.Subramanian                           Phone: (301) 402-0042
National Institutes of Health                 FAX:   (301) 402-4080
National Library of Medicine                  Email: krs at cs.uncc.edu
Bldg 38A, Rm. B1N30D                          WWW: www.cs.uncc.edu/~krs
8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894